Movies
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‘Gravity’ beats Hanks’ ‘Captain Phillips’ at box officeOct 13, 2013 5:30 pm - LOS ANGELES — “Gravity” won’t be held down. The Warner Bros. astronaut adventure directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney landed in the ...
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‘Captain Phillips’ features Minn. Somali actorsOct 12, 2013 6:00 am - MINNEAPOLIS — When Barkhad Abdi and three other amateur Somali actors from Minnesota learned they had won major roles in the new Tom Hanks movie, “Captain Phillips,” the...
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DVD previews: ‘The Heat,’ ‘Pacific Rim’Oct 12, 2013 6:00 am - Here’s a look at DVDs coming Tuesday, Oct. 15: “The Heat” (R, 117 minutes, Fox): The team of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy looks on paper to be a sure-fire formula...
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Director secretly shoots feature at Disney parksOct 11, 2013 12:03 pm - LOS ANGELES — As a kid, Randy Moore was haunted by Disney World, where he made an annual trip during summers with his dad. So as an adult, and a filmmaker, Moore wanted ...
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'Phillips' is a new chapter in history for HanksOct 11, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — The birth of Tom Hanks, dramatic actor, happened during a table read on “Splash.” As the smitten lead Allen Bauer in Ron Howard's 1984 film, Hanks began by go...
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ABC's not-so-scary 'Toy Story' treatOct 11, 2013 6:00 am - Buzz and Woody are back, but you don't have to go to the movie theater to see their new adventure. Pixar's first TV special, "Toy Story OF TERROR!" airs at 7 p.m. Wedne...
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'Romeo and Juliet' adaptation lacks passionOct 10, 2013 7:00 pm - It is surely a bad sign for any “Romeo and Juliet” when its most pulse-quickening moments come from Paul Giamatti. This latest adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy of y...
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Outrageously violent 'Machete' doesn't cut it as genre parodyOct 10, 2013 6:00 am - This "Machete" doesn't kill. Or thrill. But it does chill the marrow with the thought that another dumb sequel, "Machete Kills in Space," might already be on the cinem...
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'Captain Phillips' a smart, white-knuckled thrillerOct 10, 2013 6:00 am - Paul Greengrass' smart and accomplished fact-based thriller "Captain Phillips" does two things that many regular Hollywood action/survival movies do not: First, "Captai...
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'We Are What We Are' is a little bit terrifyingOct 10, 2013 6:00 am - Reel Life mini-review: "We Are What We Are" It has been a long, long, long time since a motion picture has truly horrified me. Jim Mickle's moody and unpredictable "We ...